Personally, if I need QT (I do these days) I'm quite happy to put up with a "couple of MB" extra. And isn't the whole point in Arch that it's a rolling release? Are you going to build your QT package on a regular basis to keep it up-to-date?

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isn't the whole point in Arch that it's a rolling release? Are you going to build your QT package on a regular basis to keep it up-to-date?

I would add qt in IgnoreList in pacman.conf, as already done with pango and menu-cache.
To avoid big dependency (on icu) I used older version of pango, without that every gtk2 application
would require icu (7MB) to be present at compile time.
Also openbox dynamic menu is buggy with new menu-cache (0.4), so I used older version (0.3.3)
Later today will try to compile Qt... You'll be informed about the result

Here are the results:
compile time 1 hour 50 mins
package size 19.5MB
That means reduced iso size for 8.5 MB
Also I have tested compiling qpdfview against new qt and it worked, nice!
I'm very pleased with this process outcome!

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